Incinerator



Patented oct. 18,1927.

UNITED STATES. i? Afr ENT `01:] 1 i EDWARD KENEB, JR, or BUFFALO, NEWYORK, A ssfIGNoR To BUFFALO (Jo-OPERATIYE sTovE oo., or BUFFALO, v.New Yoax, vA coRroRATIoN or NEW romeu FINCINERATQB,

Appiicatioaied February 7; 1921;. f s'eriai' No. 691,094.;

This invention relates "to an incinerator which is more particularly designed'fordis; posing of domestic garbage or refuse al# though the same may also be used to advantage for other purposes. f

It has for its object the provision of an apparatus for this purpose which will completely and throughly burn kitchen refuse and the like rapidly and efficiently .with a minimum consumption of'gaseo'us fuel and without. permitting any objectionableodors to escape to the exterior of the incinerator or thev building in which the same is inistalled. .y

In the accompanying drawings v Figure 1 is a vertical section of an incinerator embodying 'my invention. Figure 2 s a horizontal section of the same taken on line 2 2, Fig. L.' Figures 3'and 4 are horizontal sections taken on line 3 4, F ig.

downwardly and upwardly, 1retreatment and which preferably consists of two sections 13, 13 rotatably mounted on the fixed parts of the incinerator so that the ashes result-ing from the incineration can be dumped into the ash pit 14 below the refuse chamber and removed from the ash pit through an ash outlet 15 which is normally closed by ay door 16. The top of the refuse receptacle is provided with a gas outlet 17 which communi cates with a discharge pipe or flue 18 leading to the exterior of the building.

Arranged centrally within the lower part of the refuse receptacle is an upright burner 19 which preferably has the form of a hollow upwardly tapering cone which is fiattened on opposite sides 'and provided with perforations 20 in different parts of its height. This burner is arranged with its lower large end between the two sections of the grate and on the same level and supl ported at opposite edges of its lower endon the adjacent parts 'of the walls-ofthe refuse receptacle, vas shown in Figures 1 andV 2. The'lower end of the burneris open and forms an' inlet forgaseous fuel vwhichissup- .plied thereto fby` 'a-'gas delivery nozzle v21 whi'chopens vupwardly and isfv supplied from a gas supply manifold'22 on the exterior of the apparatus, a suitable air mixer-23` being provided to supply air to the gas for producing a combustible mixture. j As the gas issuesfrom the upper small endof the burner and above'the pile of refuse in the receptacle thesame, due to its concentration, ywill not '-fburn.' "A, baiie'or delectorv 24:, is, therefore, provided which preferablyhas theform of `a horizontal disk and which isarranged above Athe outlet of the burn er"but"close thereto :so as to leave only a small lintervening spaceI between the upper edgefof the'tubular burner? and the riphery of the upper end of the burner and is preferably supported byvconnecting its underside with the upper end of the burner by means of arms or brackets 25. The underside of this baille Vis fiat horizontally or substantially so.

Above the baille is arranged a downwardly tapering conical deflector or spreader 26 whichv is perforated and supported on. the walls of the refuse chamber above its inlet. Between this delector and the gas outlet at the upper end of the refuse chamber is an auxiliary air supply nozzle 27 which is sup-` plied by a pipe 28 from the exterior of the refuse receptacle.

After the refuse receptacle has been filled with the material which is to be destroyed the gas is turned on-and lighted at the delivery nozzle 21 below the large end of the burner. As the flame rises from this nozzle it strikes the inner side of the hollow upwardly tapering burner and heats the refuse resting against the same whereby it is dried and gas is generated as a result of this drying. The flames within the burner also pass laterally outward through those perforations of the same which are above the level of the garba e and thereby ignite and burn theV combusti le gases which are given off from the top of the pile of refuse duringthe operation of drying the same. Some of the gas also passes upwardly through the outv underside'o'ffthe baffle and projects with its 'annular margin laterally beyond the pe`- let at the lsmlall upper end of the burner but vowing to its richness will not ignite unt-il it has been spread horizontally by the baffle and mixed With a sufficient quantity of air above the refuse to render the same combustible `when' it Will become ignited -ffby the Y Vflames issuing from some of the lower openings in the burner.

remain lighted and burn as a steady flame which over-casts the top of the pile of ref-- use and forms a flame screen through which the gases generated-by the drying process must pass and thus cause any combustible elements invthese: gasesto be consumed before they reach the chimney, or outlet flue of the refuse receptacle. Asthe pile of garbage i Y grows less inheight jwhile the burningprogresses `a gradually increasing number of holes in the burner are exposed from the top downward, therebyincreasing the sizeof the flame -Wh-ich. overspreads the r.refuse and causes the same to penetrate Withgradually Vincreasing effectiveness `the mass of refuse which becomes l more dense" as the l `pile is reduced and thus insures continued consumption offthesame down to itshottom. l `By thus voverspreading the top of the `mass of garbage -by a flame which intercepts theA gases rising from the mass of garbage while being `heated all the combustibleconstituents in the gases are intercepted and positively ignited .and `burned and only non-,combustible gases Thereafter the gas is-` suing rom the upper end of the burner Awill permitted to escape to the exterior of ap,-l

paratus or the buildin in which'the same is installed, thus rendering the cremation of refuse, such as household `garbage perfectly odorless' and: unobjectionablei to `occtlpants of neighboring buildings, t

heating capacity to theV burned, an upri htvupwar'dlytapering tube arranged central y Within the receptacle and provided at its lower large end with an inlet for gaseous fuel, an outlet at its small Vup-V perfendf and a plurality of perforations in itsside at different laces throughout the height thereof, anda aine of" comparatively small diameter arranged horizontally `above Y r' the upper endof said tubeand closethereto, Y

and projecting laterally ,said lupper outlet Aso as to Vdeflect-the gas issuing there! from horizont-ally over the; top f of? the ma'- terial burn over the latter immediately around saidtube.

In testimony Whereoflfaix my signature; i

t ,EDWARD K 

